Pretty much. If you're doing dodgy stuff that you don't want to share with the NSA on any closed-source operating system, on a machine connected to the internet.... well, good luck with that.
The NSA likely already has a trusted cert on your Mac or Windows machine, and can deploy signed code that will be transparently executed by your OS. So you're probably boned anyhow.
And then they shut you down on claims of harboring terrorist communications, and because you're unable to prove otherwise (due to not having access to the content you store) you're fucked. The only secure comms that will work is encryption done on the endpoint and using whatever cleartext carrier medium. This way the government has to come after the endpoints, which is a lot more time consuming and expensive than just shutting down a central service.
And hardly surprising either, given that the alternative, SMS (which is charged at stupendous rate) is sent in... cleartext. And email is sent in... cleartext.
Gets modded insightful because most of the slashdot population these days are fucking idiots, and have never actually had any ownership experience of apple devices to base their opinion on, they just parrot bullshit they heard from some guy on the internet somewhere in 1995.
Depends if your time is free. I'm a nerd and it took me 2 hours of fucking around to get this wifi adapter working, which will break every kernel upgrade. And again - was listed as Linux compatible on the box.
Then either buy new hardware or run an unsupported OS. Example device? I've yet to run into hardware that is not supported by WIndows 7 short of 2002 or previous video cards, and rather ancient disk controllers.
I've been recommending OS X instead. The hardware is nice and it just works. Unlike the haswell box i just built that has a "Linux supported" ASUS PCE-N53 wifi adapter (linux support mentioned on box) that requires driver compilation from source and the supplied driver is only for 2.6 with no official updates either released or expected (I asked). Only way to make it work is to download a patch from some random guy on an internet forum and compile the driver. Then have it break every kernel upgrade, and need to be recompiled.
I'm in a similar position (hardware and software platform selection is mostly my call) and i see essentially zero reason to go to either 8 or 8.1 at this time. Though i suspect we'll end up getting forced that way sooner or later due to the desire for tablets and new hardware - win7 non-SP1 slipstreamed already runs into issues with the installer fucking up on 4k sector drives.
Yes, I am suggesting it is not trivial, or there would be a high quality, full-featured, secure open source version available that had a stellar security record. Unless you can point me to such a project? No? Thought not.
Well then you're the first person I've had any contact with who has been displeased with the level apple support they have received. Apple have gone above and beyond on multiple occasions both for me and friends of mine.
Apple support is why apple devices are popular. The device spec is entirely secondary. "Good enough" is good enough. And besides, i've used an iphone 4s and quad core Android phone (HTC one) back to back and there was essentially zero difference in day to day usage. I did, however run into multiple bugs in the supplied version of Android on the HTC (could not remove a folder I accidentally created on the home screen, countdown timer bug) which were fixed by upgrading the OS.
I tried android for a couple of weeks to see what I was missing. I asked all my android owning friends "OK, what should I check out that I can not do on my iPhone". About the only useful response I got was wifi scanning tools. That was it. Which i don't use my phone for anyway.
Bullshit. I buy apple devices because if/when they break, i walk into an apple store, say "this is broken" and they give me a new device and i get on with my day. I don't get the "make the user play troubleshooting technician" bullshit, i hand the broken device over, and they hand me a working one.
Customer service like that IS NOT FREE. Yes, the devices cost more for lesser on paper spec. I don't care. I'm not paying for some on paper spec, I'm paying for a supported device.
Market share doesn't mean something is good as any open source proponent should know - Microsoft have 90% or so of the operating system market, VHS won over beta, the most common car on the road is probably a Hyundai, etc.
It's a problem, because a lot of it is just garbage. Popular garbage, but garbage, none the less.
Ah, but that implies choice was offered as an option after carefully figuring out sane defaults rather than just putting out a half-arsed attempt, exposing all the configuration knobs, etc. and then listing it as a feature. "You can customize it!". "You can customize it!" is often code for "we have no fucking idea how to make this shit usable, good luck!". e.g., X11.
They still need to break the password DB encryption. Its a trade-off. What is yout alternative to keeping a unique password for every site? Paper? Unencrypted plaintext file?
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Pretty much. If you're doing dodgy stuff that you don't want to share with the NSA on any closed-source operating system, on a machine connected to the internet.... well, good luck with that.
The NSA likely already has a trusted cert on your Mac or Windows machine, and can deploy signed code that will be transparently executed by your OS. So you're probably boned anyhow.
If someone has MITM'd you, they are ALREADY IMPERSONATING YOU.
Yeah right..... and do you really think an apple exec would be that blunt and offensive about it?
And then they shut you down on claims of harboring terrorist communications, and because you're unable to prove otherwise (due to not having access to the content you store) you're fucked. The only secure comms that will work is encryption done on the endpoint and using whatever cleartext carrier medium. This way the government has to come after the endpoints, which is a lot more time consuming and expensive than just shutting down a central service.
And hardly surprising either, given that the alternative, SMS (which is charged at stupendous rate) is sent in... cleartext. And email is sent in... cleartext.
tweaking freebsd to create JunOS.
Gets modded insightful because most of the slashdot population these days are fucking idiots, and have never actually had any ownership experience of apple devices to base their opinion on, they just parrot bullshit they heard from some guy on the internet somewhere in 1995.
Also.... i can run any software I want on my mac. including Linux.
Depends if your time is free. I'm a nerd and it took me 2 hours of fucking around to get this wifi adapter working, which will break every kernel upgrade. And again - was listed as Linux compatible on the box.
My Macs? 1 hour once a year for an OS upgrade.
Then either buy new hardware or run an unsupported OS. Example device? I've yet to run into hardware that is not supported by WIndows 7 short of 2002 or previous video cards, and rather ancient disk controllers.
I've been recommending OS X instead. The hardware is nice and it just works. Unlike the haswell box i just built that has a "Linux supported" ASUS PCE-N53 wifi adapter (linux support mentioned on box) that requires driver compilation from source and the supplied driver is only for 2.6 with no official updates either released or expected (I asked). Only way to make it work is to download a patch from some random guy on an internet forum and compile the driver. Then have it break every kernel upgrade, and need to be recompiled.
I'm in a similar position (hardware and software platform selection is mostly my call) and i see essentially zero reason to go to either 8 or 8.1 at this time. Though i suspect we'll end up getting forced that way sooner or later due to the desire for tablets and new hardware - win7 non-SP1 slipstreamed already runs into issues with the installer fucking up on 4k sector drives.
They've gone back to program manager, except it is less flexible and customizable.
Yes, I am suggesting it is not trivial, or there would be a high quality, full-featured, secure open source version available that had a stellar security record. Unless you can point me to such a project? No? Thought not.
Well then you're the first person I've had any contact with who has been displeased with the level apple support they have received. Apple have gone above and beyond on multiple occasions both for me and friends of mine.
Once and for all!
Nice way to skirt the profit point.
Apple support is why apple devices are popular. The device spec is entirely secondary. "Good enough" is good enough. And besides, i've used an iphone 4s and quad core Android phone (HTC one) back to back and there was essentially zero difference in day to day usage. I did, however run into multiple bugs in the supplied version of Android on the HTC (could not remove a folder I accidentally created on the home screen, countdown timer bug) which were fixed by upgrading the OS.
Well actually, if you buy google play apps, there is an element of vendor lock-in to android., Just like there is with iOS.
I tried android for a couple of weeks to see what I was missing. I asked all my android owning friends "OK, what should I check out that I can not do on my iPhone". About the only useful response I got was wifi scanning tools. That was it. Which i don't use my phone for anyway.
Bullshit. I buy apple devices because if/when they break, i walk into an apple store, say "this is broken" and they give me a new device and i get on with my day. I don't get the "make the user play troubleshooting technician" bullshit, i hand the broken device over, and they hand me a working one.
Customer service like that IS NOT FREE. Yes, the devices cost more for lesser on paper spec. I don't care. I'm not paying for some on paper spec, I'm paying for a supported device.
Market share doesn't mean something is good as any open source proponent should know - Microsoft have 90% or so of the operating system market, VHS won over beta, the most common car on the road is probably a Hyundai, etc.
It's a problem, because a lot of it is just garbage. Popular garbage, but garbage, none the less.
Ah, but that implies choice was offered as an option after carefully figuring out sane defaults rather than just putting out a half-arsed attempt, exposing all the configuration knobs, etc. and then listing it as a feature. "You can customize it!". "You can customize it!" is often code for "we have no fucking idea how to make this shit usable, good luck!". e.g., X11.
They still need to break the password DB encryption. Its a trade-off. What is yout alternative to keeping a unique password for every site? Paper? Unencrypted plaintext file?